| Abstrakt: |
This paper presents a project for the creation of digital and facsimile copies of a unique monument of the Russian book culture - The Illuminated Chronicle Code of the 16th century - produced in a single copy by the order of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. The Illuminated Code contains 10,000 handwritten sheets and more than 17,000 colorful miniatures created by the best Russian scribes and icon painters of that time. The Code features a presentation of the Biblical history, abstracts of history of Ancient Rome and Byzantium, and the 400-year history of Russia, from 1114 till Ivan the Terrible's death in 1584. The history of the creation of the Code, the contents of its parts (volumes), the fate of this monument of culture in times hard for Russia, and the problems facing scholars when developing the project are briefly described. The execution of the project of digitalization of the Chronicle Code and the creation of its facsimile copy have allowed not only to collect its individual parts that were stored in various state repositories, but also to make this monument of culture available to scholars, specialists, library staff, schoolchildren and students in Slavic and other European countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
